Hi Shashank,

When you insert new (fresh) media , and inventory it, you can specify which volume pool it will go into (Default is netbackup). After completion of retention period, tapes WILL go back to the volume pool where it was first inventoried.

-Rajeev

I thought that would only happen if Netbackup took the tape from the pool, not if the pool was changed manually. And the Netbackup pool isn't normally used as the scratch pool.

Shashank, do you have a separate scratch pool?  What do you get for 'vmpool -listscratch'?

--
Darren

RETURN_UNASSIGNED_MEDIA_TO_SCRATCH_POOL = NO

try putting that in your vm.conf.

I have rune nbemmcmd -changesetting -RETURN_
UNASSIGNED_MEDIA_TO_SCRATCH_POOL no -machinename (hostname of master server) & it works.

this setting works on newly expring media not existing expired media

yes, if you want to change old expired media to Scratch you can do that
it won't let you change volume pool unless it has no images

do not use Scratch pool in your policy attribute; that's just wrong
think of Scratch as "free" for use, not "used" for any old thing

You could always create a set of barcode rules (using the vmrule command) for each of your tapes and assign them to a specific volume pool, that way when images expire, netbackup will assign that media to the correct volume pool rather then send it back to a scratch pool.